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feb 14 2020 West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has been accused of racism after calling a girls high school basketball team a 'bunch of thugs'.
Justice, who also coaches a girls basketball team, was supporting them when a fight broke out with the opposition.
Afterwards, he told a local newspaper The Register-Herald: 'I hate to say it any other way, but honest to Godīs truth is the same thing happened over at Woodrow two different times out of the Woodrow players.
'They're a bunch of thugs. The whole team left the bench, the coach is in a fight, they walked off the floor, they called the game!'
The team's coaches are black, as are some of the players.
'You had a situation where a white girl at Woodrow ... rushed one of our kids, and the head coach at Woodrow jumped out and grabbed her, 'cause she was rushing to hit our kids
'It was a white girl,' said Justice.
'My comment about them being thugs — white, black, whatever the situation may be — people that are behaving this way are bad for school athletics.
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